Konqueror webdavs:// patch for SVN Book

[Ximon Eighteen <xi...@int.greenpeace.org>]

Hi all,

Not sure if I submit this here or in dev. Since the content itself may 
be of interest to users reading this list I'm posting my diff here.

Please find below my contribution to the SVN Book (against current 
trunk) concerning the need to use webdavs:// for https repositories when 
using KDE Konqueror. The book currently only mentions webdav://. I 
changed the repository URLs mentioned (a) to conform with HACKING (see 
"Subversion Guide: Primary server machine/URL: svn.red-bean.com", (b) to 
ensure that the quoted error message from KDE Konqueror doesn't say 
"host host" but instead something more readable, e.g. "host 
svn.red-bean.com" and (c) because svn.red-bean.com *does* support both 
webdav:// and webdavs:// access.

Index: appb.xml
===================================================================
--- appb.xml    (revision 1688)
+++ appb.xml    (working copy)
@@ -702,13 +702,18 @@
        <para>In KDE's Konqueror, you need to use the
          <literal>webdav://</literal> scheme when entering the URL in
          the location bar.  If you enter an <literal>http://</literal>
-        URL, Konqueror will behave like an ordinary web browser.
-        You'll likely see the generic HTML directory listing produced
+        URL, Konqueror will behave like an ordinary web browser meaning 
that
+        you'll likely see the generic HTML directory listing produced
          by mod_dav_svn.  By entering
-        <literal>webdav://host/repos</literal> instead of
-        <literal>http://host/repos</literal>, Konqueror becomes a
-        WebDAV client and displays the repository as a
-        filesystem.</para>
+        <literal>webdav://svn.red-bean.com/svnbook</literal> instead of
+        <literal>http://svn.red-bean.com/svnbook</literal>, Konqueror
+        becomes a WebDAV client and displays the repository as a 
filesystem.
+        If your Subversion server uses https you will need to use
+        <literal>webdavs://svn.red-bean.com/svnbook</literal> otherwise
+        Konqueror attempts to contact the Subversion server via http and
+        reports a cryptic error message similar to
+        <literal>"Connection to host svn.red-bean.com is broken"</literal>.
+      </para>

      </sect2>

Ximon


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org